Correlation Analysis
Live Nation Entertainment Inc. vs Mastercard Incorporated
LYV vs MA
+0.821
Strong positive
When one moves up, the other tends to follow.
Live Nation Entertainment Inc.
↗LYV
Live Nation is the largest live entertainment company in the world, serving as a concert promoter, venue operator, and ticketing platform. In addition, the firm generates revenue from sponsorships and advertising. With offices in 51 countries, Live Nation promotes concerts globally and it owned, operated, or had exclusive booking rights to more than 400 venues worldwide at the end of 2025, which the firm says makes it the second-largest operator of music venues globally. In 2025, Live Nation promoted nearly 55,000 events, drawing roughly 160 million fans. Ticketmaster is a dominant global ticketing service, selling nearly 650 million tickets in 2025.
Market cap 37.6B · 17,700 employees
Mastercard Incorporated
↗MA
Mastercard is the second-largest payment processor in the world, having processed close to $11 trillion in volume during 2025. Mastercard operates in over 200 countries and processes transactions in over 150 currencies.
Market cap 447.2B
Time Series
Relative Performance
Who Moves First
MA leads LYV by 6 days
MA tends to move before LYV.
After testing 13 timing shifts, the strongest relationship was +0.823 (they moved in the same direction).
Do They Crash Together?
Correlation by Market Regime
How these series behave when markets are rising, falling, or diverging. A correlation that holds in drawdowns is very different from one that only works in rallies.
Both Rising
+0.079
12 periods · Return correlation when both series rose
Both Falling
+0.535
9 periods · Return correlation when both series fell
Diverging
-0.778
14 periods · Return correlation when series moved apart
R-Squared
67.3%
Share of variance in one series explained by the other.
Trend Agreement
63.0%
How often both series moved in the same direction period-to-period.
Overlap Quality
1,254
Deep shared window — 1,254 usable pairs.
Significance
p < 0.001
95% CI: [0.802, 0.838]
Scatter
XY Regression
Pipeline
Data quality details
Pipeline
Data quality details
Pipeline Summary
1,254 paired data points survived the daily window.
Raw input
1,254
1,254
Normalized
1,254
1,254
Prepared
1,254
1,254
Aligned
1,254
1,254
Invalid removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Duplicates removed
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Alignment drops
0
A: 0 / B: 0
Series A
Live Nation Entertainment Inc.
LYV
Market cap 37.6B · 17,700 employees
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Series B
Mastercard Incorporated
MA
Market cap 447.2B
Stock · 1,254 raw → 1,254 prepared
Sign agreement
100.0%
How often both values share the same sign.
Zero crossings
7
Estimated crossover points between normalized spreads.
Slope
2.5779
Linear regression slope.
Intercept
159.1093
Linear regression intercept.
Related Extremes
Highest and Lowest Correlated
LYV
Live Nation Entertainment Inc.
Highest
+0.887
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPM · 1,254 data points
Lowest
+0.368
Exxon Mobil Corporation
XOM · 1,254 data points
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